Natural Resources Canada is surveying Canadian truck fleets about their tire habits, and the result may result in tire fuel efficiency labeling of truck tires in that country.
The Canadian Trucking Alliance has publicly asked truck fleets to cooperate with the online study, seeing it as an opportunity to educate government, and sees tire fuel efficiency labeling as being "beneficial to the industry."
The anonymous survey asks fleets and owner-operators about how they buy their tires for both tractors and trailers the features they look for, their feelings about super wide tires and retreads, tire management and purchasing, tire maintenance, how and where they get information about tires, as well as standard census-type questions about the size of their fleets, brands of tires they buy, type of fleet they operate, and about their knowledge of the U.S. EPA’s SmartWay program.
Natural Resources Canada has set a Mar. 31 deadline for surveys to be completed and submitted, but has set no timetable for assessing or instituting any labeling program.